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IndieGames.com is presented by the UBM TechWeb Game Network, which runs the Independent Games Festival & Summit every year at Game Developers Conference. The company (producer of the Game Developers Conference series, Gamasutra.com and Game Developer magazine) established the Independent Games Festival in 1998 to encourage innovation in game development and to recognize the best independent game developers.

"So I played a pony-themed bullet hell shmup. It was bad. It was terribad. It was so bad it offended me," notes developer Giest118. "So I figured: 'While any pony game I make would LOOK like ass, it'd as least PLAY better than this.'"

Kizuna DoPonyPachi features a scoring system modeled after Cave's arcade shoot-'em-up Ketsui. In brief: kill an enemy in close proximity and it'll drop high-value scoring items, and subsequent chained kills score big points. It's a deep system that rewards skilled play, and though Kizuna DoPonyPachi isn't the best-looking game in the world, its gameplay is definitely built on a solid foundation.